Analysis Quote by David Ignatius Download Open image “Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.” — David Ignatius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analysis Currents Guides Problem
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
“If you are one in a million in China, you’re one of 1,300 people.” — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
